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Rhetorica ad&nbsp;Herennium
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<h1>
<a id="p3"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p3&nbsp;</span></a>
Book&nbsp;I
</h1>
<p class="start justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R1">1</a>
<a class="sec" name="1">1</a>&nbsp;My private affairs keep me so busy
that I&nbsp;can hardly find enough leisure to devote to studies, and the
little that is vouchsafed to me I&nbsp;have usually preferred to spend
on philosophy. Yet your desire, Gaius Herennius, has spurred me to
compose a work on the Theory of Public Speaking, lest you should suppose
that in a matter which concerns you I&nbsp;either lacked the will or
shirked the labour. And I&nbsp;have undertaken this project the more
gladly because I&nbsp;knew that you had good grounds in wishing to learn
rhetoric, for it is true that copiousness and facility in expression
bear abundant fruit, if controlled by proper knowledge and a strict
discipline of the mind.
</p><p class="justify">
That is why I&nbsp;have omitted to treat those topics which, for the sake of futile <span class="whole">self-assertion</span>, Greek writers<a class="ref" id="ref1" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note1" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">1</a>
have adopted. For they, from fear of appearing to know too little, have
gone in quest of notions irrelevant to the art, in order that the art
might seem more difficult to understand. I,&nbsp;on the other hand, have
treated those topics which seemed
<a id="p5"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p5&nbsp;</span></a>pertinent to the theory of public speaking. I&nbsp;have not been moved by hope of gain<a class="ref" id="ref2" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note2" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">2</a>
or desire for glory, as the rest have been, in undertaking to write,
but have done so in order that, by my painstaking work, I&nbsp;may
gratify your wish. To avoid prolixity, I&nbsp;shall now begin my
discussion of the subject, as soon as I&nbsp;have given you this one
injunction: Theory without continuous practice in speaking is of little
avail; from this you may understand that the precepts of theory offered
ought to be applied in practice.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R2">2</a>
<a class="sec" name="2">2</a>&nbsp;The task of the public speaker is to discuss capably those matters which law and custom have fixed for the uses of <span class="whole">citizen</span>­ship, and to secure as far as possible the agreement of his hearers.<a class="ref" id="ref3" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note3" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">3</a> There are three kinds<a class="ref" id="ref4" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note4" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">4</a> of causes which the speaker must treat: Epideictic, Deliberative, and Judicial.<a class="ref" id="ref5" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note5" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">5</a>
The epideictic kind is devoted to the praise or censure of some
particular person. The deliberative consists in the discussion of policy
and embraces persuasion and dissuasion.<a class="ref" id="ref6" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note6" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">6</a> The judicial is based on legal controversy, and comprises criminal prosecution or civil suit, and defence.<a class="ref" id="ref7" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note7" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">7</a>
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Now I&nbsp;shall explain what faculties the speaker should possess, and then show the proper means of treating these causes.<a class="ref" id="ref8" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note8" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">8</a>
</p><p class="justify" id="p7"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p7&nbsp;</span>
<a class="sec" name="3">3</a>&nbsp;The speaker, then, should possess the faculties of Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery.<a class="ref" id="ref9" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note9" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">9</a> Invention is the devising of matter, true or plausible, that would make the case convincing.<a class="ref" id="ref10" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note10" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">10</a>
Arrangement is the ordering and distribution of the matter, making
clear the place to which each thing is to be assigned. Style is the
adaptation of suitable words and sentences to the matter devised. Memory
is the firm retention in the mind of the matter, words, and
arrangement. Delivery is the graceful regulation of voice, countenance,
and gesture.
</p><p class="justify">
All these faculties we can acquire by three means: Theory, Imitation, and Practice.<a class="ref" id="ref11" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note11" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">11</a> By theory is meant
<a id="p9"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p9&nbsp;</span></a>a set of rules
that provide a definite method and system of speaking. Imitation
stimulates us to attain, in accordance with a studied method, the
effectiveness of certain models in speaking. Practice is assiduous
exercise and experience in speaking.
</p><p class="justify">
Since, then, I&nbsp;have shown what causes the speaker should treat and
what kinds of competence he should possess, it seems that I&nbsp;now
need to indicate how the speech can be adapted to the theory of the
speaker's function.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R3">3</a>
<a class="sec" name="4">4</a>&nbsp;Invention is used for the six parts
of a discourse: the Introduction, Statement of Facts, Division, Proof,
Refutation, and Conclusion.<a class="ref" id="ref12" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note12" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">12</a> The Introduction is the beginning of the discourse, and by it the hearer's mind is prepared<a class="ref" id="ref13" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note13" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">13</a> for attention. The Narration or Statement of Facts sets forth the events that have occurred or might have occurred.<a class="ref" id="ref14" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note14" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">14</a>
By means of the Division we make clear what matters are agreed upon and
what are contested, and announce what points we intend to take up.
Proof is the presentation of our arguments, together with their
corroboration.<a class="ref" id="ref15" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note15" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">15</a> Refutation is the destruction
<a id="p11"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p11&nbsp;</span></a>of our adversaries' arguments.<a class="ref" id="ref16" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note16" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">16</a> The Conclusion is the end of the discourse, formed in accordance with the principles of the art.
</p><p class="justify">
Along with the speaker's functions, in order to make the subject easier
to understand, I&nbsp;have been led also to discuss the parts of a
discourse, and to adapt these to the theory of Invention. It seems,
then, that I&nbsp;must at this juncture first discuss the Introduction.<a class="ref" id="ref17" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note17" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">17</a>
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="sec" name="5">5</a>&nbsp;Given the cause, in order to be able
to make a more appropriate Introduction, we must consider what kind of
cause it is. The kinds of causes are four: honourable, discreditable,
doubtful, and petty.<a class="ref" id="ref18" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note18" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">18</a>
A&nbsp;cause is regarded as of the honourable kind when we either
defend what seems to deserve defence by all men, or attack what all men
seem in duty bound of the attack; for example, when we defend a hero, or
prosecute a parricide. A&nbsp;cause is understood to be of the
discreditable kind when something honourable is under attack or when
something discreditable is being defended. A&nbsp;cause is of the
doubtful kind when it is partly honourable and partly discreditable.
A&nbsp;cause is of the petty kind when the matter brought up is
considered unimportant.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R4">4</a>
<a class="sec" name="6">6</a>&nbsp;In view of these considerations, it
will be in point to apply the theory of Introductions to the kind of
cause. There are two kinds of Introduction: the Direct Opening, in Greek
called the <span class="translit_Greek">Proimion</span>,<a class="ref" id="ref19" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note19" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">19</a>
<a id="p13"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p13&nbsp;</span></a>and the Subtle Approach, called the <span class="translit_Greek">Ephodos</span>.<a class="ref" id="ref20" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note20" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">20</a>
The Direct Opening straightway prepares the hearer to attend to our
speech. Its purpose is to enable us to have hearers who are attentive,
receptive, and <span class="whole">well-disposed</span>.<a class="ref" id="ref21" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note21" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">21</a>
If our cause is of the doubtful kind, we shall build the Direct Opening
upon goodwill, so that the discreditable part of the cause cannot be
prejudicial to us. If our cause is of the petty kind, we shall make our
hearers attentive. If our cause is of the discreditable kind, unless we
have hit upon a means of capturing goodwill by attacking our
adversaries, we must use the Subtle Approach, which I&nbsp;shall discuss
later.<a class="ref" id="ref22" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note22" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">22</a> And finally, if our cause is of the honourable kind, it will be correct either to use the Direct Opening or not to use it.<a class="ref" id="ref23" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note23" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">23</a>
If we wish to use it, we must show why the cause is honourable, or else
briefly discuss what matters we are going to discuss. But if we do not
wish to use the Direct Opening, we must begin our speech with a law, a
written document, or some argument supporting our cause.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="sec" name="7">7</a>&nbsp;Since, then, we wish to have our hearer receptive, <span class="whole">well-disposed</span>,
and attentive, I&nbsp;shall disclose how each state can be brought
about. We can have receptive hearers if we briefly summarise the cause
and make
<a id="p15"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p15&nbsp;</span></a>them
attentive; for the receptive hearer is one who is willing to listen
attentively. We shall have attentive hearers by promising to discuss
important, new, and unusual matters, or such as appertain to the
commonwealth, or to the hearers themselves, or to the worship of the
immortal gods; by bidding them listen attentively; and by enumerating
the points we are going to discuss. <a class="sec" name="8">8</a>&nbsp;We can by four methods make our hearers <span class="whole">well-disposed</span>: by discussing our own person, the person of our adversaries, that of our hearers, and the facts themselves.<a class="ref" id="ref24" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note24" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">24</a>
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R5">5</a>
From the discussion of our own person we shall secure goodwill by
praising our services without arrogance and revealing also our past
conduct toward the republic, or toward our parents, friends, or the
audience, and by making some reference to .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. provided that
all such references are pertinent to the matter in question; likewise by
setting forth our disabilities, need, loneliness, and misfortune,<a class="ref" id="ref25" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note25" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">25</a> and pleading for our hearers' aid, and at the same time showing that we have been unwilling to place our hope in anyone else.
</p><p class="justify">
From the discussion of the person of our adversaries we shall secure
goodwill by bringing them into hatred, unpopularity, or contempt.<a class="ref" id="ref26" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note26" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">26</a> We shall force hatred upon them by addu­cing some base, <span class="whole">high-handed</span>, treacherous, cruel, impudent, malicious, or
<a id="p17"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p17&nbsp;</span></a>shameful act
of theirs. We shall make our adversaries unpopular by setting forth
their violent behaviour, their dominance, factiousness, wealth, lack of <span class="whole">self-restraint</span>,
high birth, clients, hospitality, club allegiance, or marriage
alliances, and by making clear that they rely more upon these supports
than upon the truth. We shall bring our adversaries into contempt by
presenting their idleness, cowardice, sloth, and luxurious habits.
</p><p class="justify">
From the discussion of the person of our hearers goodwill is secured if
we set forth the courage, wisdom, humanity, and nobility of past
judgements they have rendered, and if we reveal what esteem they enjoy
and with what interest their decision is awaited.
</p><p class="justify">
From the discussion of the facts themselves we shall render the hearer <span class="whole">well-disposed</span> by extolling our own cause with praise and by contemptuously disparaging that of our adversaries.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R6">6</a>
<a class="sec" name="9">9</a>&nbsp;Now I&nbsp;must explain the Subtle Approach.<a class="ref" id="ref27" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note27" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">27</a>
There are three occasions on which we cannot use the Direct Opening,
and these we must consider carefully: (1)&nbsp;when our cause is
discreditable, that is, when the subject itself alienates the hearer
from us; (2)&nbsp;when the hearer has apparently been won over by the
previous speakers of the opposition; (3)&nbsp;or when the hearer has
become wearied by listening to the previous speakers.
</p><p class="justify">
If the cause has a discreditable character,<a class="ref" id="ref28" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note28" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">28</a>
we can make our Introduction with the following points: that the agent,
not the action, ought to be considered; that we ourselves are
displeased with the acts which our opponents say have been committed,
and that
<a id="p19"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p19&nbsp;</span></a>these are
unworthy, yes, heinous. Next, when we have for a time enlarged upon this
idea, we shall show that nothing of the kind has been committed by us.
Or we shall set forth the judgement rendered by others in an analogous
case, whether that cause be of equal, or less, or greater importance;
then we shall gradually approach our own cause and establish the
analogy. The same result is achieved if we deny an intention to discuss
our opponents or some extraneous matter and yet, by subtly inserting the
words,<a class="ref" id="ref29" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note29" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">29</a> do so.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="sec" name="10">10</a>&nbsp;If the hearers have been convinced,<a class="ref" id="ref30" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note30" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">30</a>
if our opponent's speech has gained their credence — and this will not
be hard for us to know, since we are well aware of the means by which
belief is ordinarily effected — if, then, we think belief has been
effected, we shall make our Subtle Approach to the cause by the
following means: the point which our adversaries have regarded as their
strongest support we shall promise to discuss first; we shall begin with
a statement made by the opponent, and particularly with that which he
has made last; and we shall use Indecision,<a class="ref" id="ref31" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note31" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">31</a> along with an exclamation of astonishment: "What had&nbsp;I best say?" or "To what point shall&nbsp;I first reply?"
</p><p class="justify">
If the hearers have been fatigued by listening, we shall open with something that may provoke laughter<a class="ref" id="ref32" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note32" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">32</a>
— a&nbsp;fable, a plausible fiction, a&nbsp;caricature, an ironical
inversion on the meaning of a word, an ambiguity, innuendo, banter, a
naïvety, an exaggeration,
<a id="p21"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p21&nbsp;</span></a>a&nbsp;recapitulation,<a class="ref" id="ref33" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note33" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">33</a> a&nbsp;pun, an unexpected turn,<a class="ref" id="ref34" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note34" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">34</a>
a&nbsp;comparison, a&nbsp;novel tale, a&nbsp;historical anecdote,
a&nbsp;verse, or a challenge or a smile of approbation directed at some
one. Or we shall promise to speak otherwise than as we have prepared,
and not to talk as others usually do; we shall briefly explain what the
other speakers do and what we intend to do.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R7">7</a>
<a class="sec" name="11">11</a>&nbsp;Between the Subtle Approach and the
Direct Opening there is the following difference. The Direct Opening
should be such that by the straightforward methods I&nbsp;have
prescribed we immediately make the hearer <span class="whole">well-disposed</span>
or attentive or receptive; whereas the Subtle Approach should be such
that we effect all these results covertly, through dissimulation,<a class="ref" id="ref35" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note35" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">35</a> and so can arrive at the same <span class="whole">vantage-point</span>
in the task of speaking. But though this three-fold advantage — that
the hearers constantly show themselves attentive, receptive, and <span class="whole">well-disposed</span> to us — is to be secured throughout the discourse, it must in the main be won by the Introduction to the cause.
</p><p class="justify">
Now, for fear that we may at some time use a faulty Introduction,
I&nbsp;shall show what faults must be avoided. In the Introduction of a
cause we must make sure that our style is temperate and that the words
are in current use,<a class="ref" id="ref36" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note36" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">36</a> so that the discourse seems unprepared. An Introduction is faulty if it can be applied as well to a&nbsp;number of causes;<a class="ref" id="ref37" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note37" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">37</a> that is called a banal Introduction. Again, an Introduction which the adversary can use no less well is faulty, and that
<a id="p23"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p23&nbsp;</span></a>is called a
common Introduction. That Introduction, again, is faulty which the
opponent can turn to his own use against you. And again that is faulty
which has been composed in too laboured a style, or is too long; and
that which does not appear to have grown out of the cause itself in such
a way as to have an intimate connection with the Statement of Facts;
and, finally, that which fails to make the hearer <span class="whole">well-disposed</span> or receptive or attentive.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R8">8</a>
Concerning the Introduction I&nbsp;have said enough; next let me turn to the Narration or Statement of Facts. <a class="sec" name="12">12</a>&nbsp;There are three types of Statement of Facts.<a class="ref" id="ref38" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note38" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">38</a>
It is one type when we set forth the facts and turn every detail to our
advantage so as to win the victory, and this kind appertains to the
causes on which a decision is to be rendered.<a class="ref" id="ref39" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note39" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">39</a> There is a second type which often enters into a speech as a means of winning belief or incriminating our adversary<a class="ref" id="ref40" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note40" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">40</a> or effecting a transition or setting the stage for something.<a class="ref" id="ref41" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note41" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">41</a> The third type<a class="ref" id="ref42" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note42" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">42</a> is not used in a cause actually pleaded in court, yet affords us convenient practice<a class="ref" id="ref43" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note43" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">43</a> for handling the first two types more advantageously in actual cases. <a class="sec" name="13">13</a>&nbsp;Of such narratives there are two kinds: one based on the facts, the other on the persons.<a class="ref" id="ref44" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note44" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">44</a>
</p><p class="justify">
The kind of narrative based on the exposition of the facts presents
three forms: legendary, historical, and realistic. The legendary tale
comprises events neither true nor probable, like those transmitted by
<a id="p25"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p25&nbsp;</span></a>tragedies.<a class="ref" id="ref45" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note45" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">45</a> The historical narrative is an account of exploits actually performed, but removed in time from the recollection of our age.<a class="ref" id="ref46" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note46" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">46</a> Realistic narrative recounts imaginary events, which yet could have occurred, like the plots of comedies.<a class="ref" id="ref47" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note47" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">47</a>
</p><p class="justify">
A&nbsp;narrative based on the persons should present a lively style and diverse traits of character,<a class="ref" id="ref48" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note48" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">48</a>
such as austerity and gentleness, hope and fear, distrust and desire,
hypocrisy and compassion, and the vicissitudes of life, such as reversal
of fortune,<a class="ref" id="ref49" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note49" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">49</a> unexpected disaster, sudden joy, and a happy outcome. But it is in practice exercises that these types will be worked out.<a class="ref" id="ref50" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note50" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">50</a> How we should handle that type of Statement of Facts which belongs in actual causes I&nbsp;am about to explain.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R9">9</a>
<a class="sec" name="14">14</a>&nbsp;A&nbsp;Statement of Facts should have three qualities: brevity, clarity, and plausibility.<a class="ref" id="ref51" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note51" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">51</a> Since we know that these qualities are essential, we must learn how to achieve them.
</p><p class="justify">
We shall be able to make the Statement of Facts brief if we begin it at
the place at which we need to begin; if we do not try to recount from
the remotest beginning; if our Statement of Facts is summary and
<a id="p27"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p27&nbsp;</span></a>not detailed;<a class="ref" id="ref52" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note52" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">52</a>
if we carry it forward, not to the furthermost point, but to the point
to which we need to go; if we use no digressions and do not wander from
the account we have undertaken to set forth; and if we present the
outcome in such a way that the facts that have preceded can also be
known, although we have not spoken of them. For example, if
I&nbsp;should say that I&nbsp;have returned from the province, it would
also be understood that I&nbsp;had gone to the province.<a class="ref" id="ref53" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note53" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">53</a>
And in general it is better to pass by not only that which weakens the
cause but also that which neither weakens nor helps it. Furthermore, we
must guard against repeating immediately what we have said already, as
in the following: "Simo came from Athens to Megara in the evening; when
he came to Megara, he laid a trap for the maiden: after laying the trap
he ravished her then and there."<a class="ref" id="ref54" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note54" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">54</a>
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="sec" name="15">15</a>&nbsp;Our Statement of Facts will be clear<a class="ref" id="ref55" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note55" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">55</a>
if we set forth the facts in the precise order in which they occurred,
observing their actual or probable sequence and chronology. Here we must
see that our language is not confused,<a class="ref" id="ref56" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note56" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">56</a>
involved, or unfamiliar, that we do not shift to another subject, that
we do not trace the affair back to its remotest beginning, nor carry it
too far forward, and that we do not omit anything pertinent. And our
Statement of Facts will be clear if we follow the precepts on brevity
that I&nbsp;have laid down,<a class="ref" id="ref57" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note57" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">57</a> for the shorter the Statement of Facts, the clearer will it be and the easier to follow.
</p><p class="justify" id="p29"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p29&nbsp;</span>
<a class="sec" name="16">16</a>&nbsp;Our Statement of Facts will have plausibility<a class="ref" id="ref58" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note58" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">58</a>
if it answer the requirements of the usual, the expected, and the
natural; if account is strictly kept of the length of time, the standing
of the persons involved, the motives in the planning, and the
advantages offered by the scene of action, so as to obviate the argument
in refutation that the time was too short, or that there was no motive,
or that the place was unsuitable, or that the persons themselves could
not have acted or been treated so. If the matter is true, all these
precautions must none the less be observed in the Statement of Facts,
for often the truth cannot gain credence otherwise. And if the matter is
fictitious, these measures will have to be observed all the more
scrupulously. Fabrication must be circumspect in those matters in which
official documents or some person's unimpeachable guaranty will prove to
have played a rôle.
</p><p class="justify">
In what I&nbsp;have thus far said I&nbsp;believe that I&nbsp;agree with
the other writers on the art of rhetoric except for the innovations
I&nbsp;have devised on Introductions by the Subtle Approach.
I&nbsp;alone,<a class="ref" id="ref59" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note59" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">59</a>
in contrast with the rest, have distinguished three occasions for the
Subtle Approach, so as to provide us with a thoroughly sure method and a
lucid theory of Introductions. <a class="chapter" name="R10">10</a>&nbsp;Now
as to the rest, since I&nbsp;must discuss the finding of arguments, a
matter that makes unique demands upon the art of the speaker,
I&nbsp;shall endeavour to exhibit an industry in research such as the
importance of the subject demands — as soon as I&nbsp;have prefixed
a&nbsp;few remarks on the Division of the cause.
</p><p class="justify" id="p31"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p31&nbsp;</span>
<a class="sec" name="17">17</a>&nbsp;The Division<a class="ref" id="ref60" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note60" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">60</a>
of the cause falls into two parts. When The Statement of Facts has been
brought to an end, we ought first to make clear what we and our
opponents agree upon, if there is agreement on the points useful to us,<a class="ref" id="ref61" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note61" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">61</a> and what remains contested, as follows: "Orestes killed his mother;<a class="ref" id="ref62" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note62" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">62</a>
on that I&nbsp;agree with my opponents. But did he have the right to
commit the deed, and was he justified in committing it? That is in
dispute." Likewise in reply: "They admit that Agamemnon was killed by
Clytemnestra; yet despite this they say that I&nbsp;ought not to have
avenged my father."
</p><p class="justify" id="distribution">
Then, when we have done this, we should use the Distribution.<a class="ref" id="ref63" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note63" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">63</a> The Distribution has two parts: the Enumeration<a class="ref" id="ref64" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note64" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">64</a> and the Exposition.<a class="ref" id="ref65" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note65" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">65</a>
We shall be using the Enumeration when we tell by number how many
points we are going to discuss. The number ought not to exceed three;
for otherwise, besides the danger that we may at some time include in
the speech more or fewer points than we enumerated,<a class="ref" id="ref66" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note66" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">66</a> it instils in the hearer the suspicion of premeditation and artifice,<a class="ref" id="ref67" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note67" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">67</a>
and this robs the speech of conviction. The Exposition consists in
setting forth, briefly and completely, the points we intend to discuss.
</p><p class="justify" id="p33"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p33&nbsp;</span>
<a class="sec" name="18">18</a>&nbsp;Now let me pass to Proof<a class="ref" id="ref68" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note68" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">68</a> and Refutation.<a class="ref" id="ref69" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note69" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">69</a>
The entire hope of victory and entire method of persuasion rest on
proof and refutation, for when we have submitted our arguments and
destroyed those of the opposition, we have, of course, completely
fulfilled the speaker's function. <a class="chapter" name="R11">11</a>&nbsp;We shall, then, be enabled to do both if we know the Type of Issue<a class="ref" id="ref70" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note70" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">70</a> which the cause presents. Others make these Types of Issue four.<a class="ref" id="ref71" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note71" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">71</a> My teacher<a class="ref" id="ref72" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note72" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">72</a>
thought that there were three, and intending thereby to subtract any of
the types they had discovered, but to demonstrate that one type which
they should have taught as single and uncompounded they had divided into
with distinct and separate types. The Issue is determined by the
joining of the primary plea of the defence with the charge of the
plaintiff. The Types of Issue
<a id="p35"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p35&nbsp;</span></a>are then, as I&nbsp;have said above, three: Conjectural, Legal, and Juridical.<a class="ref" id="ref73" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note73" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">73</a>
</p><p class="justify">
The Issue is Conjectural<a class="ref" id="ref74" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note74" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">74</a>
when the controversy concerns a question of fact, as follows: In the
forest Ajax, after realizing what in his madness he had done, fell on
his sword. Ulysses appears, perceives that Ajax is dead, draws the
bloody weapon from corpse. Teucer appears, sees his brother dead, and
his brother's enemy with bloody sword in hand. He accuses Ulysses of a
capital crime. Here the truth is sought by conjecture. The controversy
will concern the fact.<a class="ref" id="ref75" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note75" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">75</a> And that is why the Issue in the cause is called Conjectural.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="sec" name="19">19</a>&nbsp;The Issue is Legal<a class="ref" id="ref76" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note76" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">76</a>
when some controversy turns upon the letter of a text or arises from an
implication therein. A&nbsp;Legal Issue is divided into six subtypes:
Letter and Spirit,<a class="ref" id="ref77" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note77" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">77</a> Conflicting Laws,<a class="ref" id="ref78" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note78" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">78</a> Ambiguity,<a class="ref" id="ref79" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note79" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">79</a> Definition,<a class="ref" id="ref80" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note80" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">80</a> Transference,<a class="ref" id="ref81" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note81" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">81</a> and Reasoning from Analogy.<a class="ref" id="ref82" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note82" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">82</a>
</p><p class="justify">
A&nbsp;controversy from Letter and Spirit arises when the framer's
intention appears to be at variance with the letter of the text, as
follows: Suppose a law which decrees that whoever have abandoned their
ship in a storm shall lose all rights of title, and that their ship, if
saved, and cargo as well, belong to those who have remained on board.
Terrified by the storm's violence, all deserted the ship and took to the
<a id="p37"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p37&nbsp;</span></a>boat — all
except one sick man who, on account of his illness, could not leave the
ship and escape. By sheer chance the ship was driven safely to harbour.
The invalid has come into possession of the ship, and the former owner
claims it.<a class="ref" id="ref83" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note83" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">83</a> Here is a Legal Issue based on Letter and Spirit.<a class="ref" id="ref84" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note84" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">84</a>
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="sec" name="20">20</a>&nbsp;Controversy results from
Conflicting Laws when one law orders or permits a deed while another
forbids it, as follows: A&nbsp;law forbids one who has been convicted of
extortion to speak before the Assembly.<a class="ref" id="ref85" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note85" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">85</a> Another law commands the augur to designate in the Assembly the candidate for the place of a deceased augur.<a class="ref" id="ref86" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note86" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">86</a>
A&nbsp;certain augur convicted of extortion has designated the
candidate for the place of a deceased augur. A&nbsp;penalty is demanded
of him.<a class="ref" id="ref87" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note87" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">87</a> Here is a Legal Issue established from Conflicting Laws.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R12">12</a>
A&nbsp;controversy is created by Ambiguity when a text presents two or
more meanings, as follows: The father of a family, when making his son
his heir, in his will bequeathed silver vessels to his wife: "Let my
heir give my wife thirty pounds' weight of silver vessels, 'such as
shall be selected'." After his death the widow asks for some precious
vessels of magnificent <span class="whole">relief-work</span>. The son contends that he owes her thirty pounds' weight of vessels "such as shall be selected" <i>by&nbsp;him</i>.<a class="ref" id="ref88" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note88" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">88</a> Here is a Legal Issue established from Ambiguity.
</p><p class="justify" id="p39"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p39&nbsp;</span>
<a class="sec" name="21">21</a>&nbsp;A&nbsp;cause rests on Definition
when the name by which an act should be called is in controversy. The
following is an example: When Lucius Saturninus was about to introduce
the grain law concerning the five-sixths&nbsp;<span lang="la" class="Latin">as</span>,
Quintus Caepio, who was city quaestor during that time, explained to
the Senate that the treasury could not endure so great a largess. The
Senate decreed that if Saturninus should propose that law before the
people he would appear to be doing so against the common weal.
Saturninus proceeded with his motion. His colleagues interposed a veto;
nevertheless he brought the lot-urn down for the vote. Caepio, when he
sees Saturninus presenting his motion against the public welfare despite
his colleagues' veto, attacks him with the assistance of some
Conservatives, destroys the bridges,<a class="ref" id="ref89" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note89" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">89</a> throws down the ballot boxes, and blocks further action on the motion. Caepio is brought to trial for treason.<a class="ref" id="ref90" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note90" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">90</a>
The Issue is Legal, and is established from Definition, for we are
defining the actual term when we investigate what constitute treason.<a class="ref" id="ref91" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note91" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">91</a>
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="sec" name="22">22</a>&nbsp;A&nbsp;controversy is based on
Transference when the defendant maintains that there must be a
postponement of time or a change of plaintiff or judges.<a class="ref" id="ref92" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note92" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">92</a> This
<a id="p41"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p41&nbsp;</span></a>subtype of Issue the Greeks use in the proceedings before judges, we generally before the magistrate's tribunal.<a class="ref" id="ref93" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note93" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">93</a>
We do, however, make some use of it in judicial proceedings. For
example, if some one is accused of embezzlement, alleged to have removed
silver vessels belonging to the state from a private place, he can say,
when he has defined theft and embezzlement, that in his case the action
ought to be one for theft and not embezzlement.<a class="ref" id="ref94" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note94" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">94</a> This subtype of Legal Issue rarely<a class="ref" id="ref95" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note95" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">95</a>
presents itself in judicial proceedings for the following reasons: in a
private action there are counterpleas accepted by the praetor,<a class="ref" id="ref96" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note96" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">96</a>
and the plaintiff's fails unless he has had a cause of action; in
public investigations the laws provide that, if it suits the defendant, a
decision is first passed on whether the plaintiff is, or is not,
permitted to make the charge.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R13">13</a>
<a class="sec" name="23">23</a>&nbsp;The controversy is based on Analogy
when a matter that arises for adjudication lacks a specifically
applicable law, but an analogy is sought from other existing laws on the
basis of a certain similarity to the matter in question. For example, a
law reads: "If a man is raving mad, authority over his person and
property shall belong to his agnates, or to the members of his <span lang="la" class="Latin">gens</span>."<a class="ref" id="ref97" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note97" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">97</a> Another law reads: "He who has been convicted of murdering his parent shall
<a id="p43"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p43&nbsp;</span></a>be completely wrapped and bound in a leather sack and thrown into a running stream."<a class="ref" id="ref98" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note98" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">98</a> Another law: "As the head of a family has directed regarding his household or his property, so shall the law hold good."<a class="ref" id="ref99" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note99" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">99</a>
Another law: "If the head of a family dies intestate, his household and
property shall belong to his agnates, or to the members of his <span lang="la" class="Latin">gens</span>."<a class="ref" id="ref100" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note100" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">100</a>
Malleolus was convicted of matricide. Immediately after he had received
sentence, his head was wrapped in a bag of wolf's hide, the "wooden
shoes"<a class="ref" id="ref101" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note101" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">101</a>
were put upon his feet, and he was led away to prison. His defenders
bring tablets into the jail, write his will in his presence, witnesses
duly attending. The penalty is exacted of him. His testamentary heirs
enter upon their inheritance. Malleolus' younger brother, who had been
one of the accusers in his trial, claims his inheritance by the law of
agnation. Here no one specific law is adduced, and yet many laws are
adduced, which for the basis for a reasoning by analogy to prove that
Malleolus had or had not the right to make a will. It is a Legal Issue
established from Analogy.
</p><p class="justify">
I&nbsp;have explained the types of Legal Issue. Now let me discuss the Juridical Issue.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R14">14</a>
<a class="sec" name="24">24</a>&nbsp;An Issue is Juridical<a class="ref" id="ref102" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note102" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">102</a>
when there is agreement on the act, but the right or wrong of the act
is in question. Of this Issue there are two subtypes, one called
Absolute,<a class="ref" id="ref103" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note103" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">103</a> the other Assumptive.<a class="ref" id="ref104" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note104" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">104</a>
</p><p class="justify" id="p45"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p45&nbsp;</span>
It is an Absolute Issue when we contend that the act in and of itself,
without our drawing on any extraneous considerations, was right. For
example, a certain mime abused the poet Accius by name on the stage.
Accius sues him on the ground of injuries. The player makes no defence
except to maintain that it was permissible to name a person under whose
name dramatic works were given to be performed on the stage.<a class="ref" id="ref105" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note105" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">105</a>
</p><p class="justify">
The Issue is Assumptive when the defence, in itself insufficient, is
established by drawing on extraneous matter. The Assumptive subtypes are
four: Acknowledgement of the Charge,<a class="ref" id="ref106" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note106" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">106</a> Rejection of the Responsibility,<a class="ref" id="ref107" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note107" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">107</a> Shifting of the Question of Guilt,<a class="ref" id="ref108" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note108" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">108</a> Comparison with the Alternative Course.<a class="ref" id="ref109" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note109" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">109</a>
</p><p class="justify">
The Acknowledgement<a class="ref" id="ref110" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note110" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">110</a> is the defendant's plea for pardon. The Acknowledgement includes the Exculpation<a class="ref" id="ref111" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note111" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">111</a> and the Plea for Mercy.<a class="ref" id="ref112" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note112" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">112</a> The Exculpation is the defendant's denial that he acted with intent.<a class="ref" id="ref113" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note113" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">113</a> Under Plea of Exculpation are three subheads: Ignorance,<a class="ref" id="ref114" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note114" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">114</a> Accident,<a class="ref" id="ref115" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note115" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">115</a> and Necessity;<a class="ref" id="ref116" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note116" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">116</a> accident, as in the case of Caepio<a class="ref" id="ref117" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note117" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">117</a>
before the tribunes of the plebs on the loss of his army; ignorance, as
in the case of the man who, before opening the tablets of the will by
the terms of which his brother's slave had been
<a id="p47"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p47&nbsp;</span></a>manumitted, exacted punishment of the slave for having slain his master;<a class="ref" id="ref118" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note118" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">118</a> necessity, as in the case of the soldier who overstayed his leave because the floods had blocked the roads.<a class="ref" id="ref119" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note119" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">119</a> It is a Plea for Mercy when the defendant confesses the crime and premeditation, yet begs for compassion.<a class="ref" id="ref120" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note120" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">120</a> In the courts this is rarely practicable,<a class="ref" id="ref121" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note121" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">121</a>
except when we speak in defence of one whose good deeds are numerous
and notable; for example, interposing as a commonplace in amplification:
"Even if he had done this, it would still be appropriate to pardon him
in view of his past services; but he does not at all beg for pardon."
Such a cause, then, is not admissible in the courts, but is admissible
before the Senate, or a general, or a council.<a class="ref" id="ref122" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note122" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">122</a>
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R15">15</a>
<a class="sec" name="25">25</a>&nbsp;A&nbsp;cause rests on the Shifting
of the Question of Guilt when we do not deny our act but plead that we
were driven to it by the crimes of others, as in the case of Orestes
when he defended himself by diverting the issue of guilt from himself to
his mother.<a class="ref" id="ref123" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note123" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">123</a>
</p><p class="justify">
A&nbsp;cause rests on the Rejection of the Responsibility when we
repudiate, not the act charged, but the responsibility, and either
transfer it to another person or attribute it to some circumstance. An
example of the transference of responsibility to another person: if an
accusation should be brought against the confessed slayer of Publius
Sulpicius, and he should defend his act by invoking an order of the
consuls, declaring that they not only commanded the
<a id="p49"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p49&nbsp;</span></a>act but also gave reason why it was lawful.<a class="ref" id="ref124" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note124" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">124</a>
An example of attribution to a circumstance: if a person should be
forbidden by a plebiscite to do what a will has directed him to do.
</p><p class="justify">
A&nbsp;cause rests on Comparison with the Alternative Course when we
declare that it was necessary for us to do one or the other of the two
things, and that the one we did was the better. This cause is of the
following sort: Gaius Popilius, hemmed in by the Gauls, and quite unable
to escape, entered into a parley with the enemy's chiefs. He came away
with consent to lead his army out on condition that he abandon his
baggage. He considered it better to lose his baggage than his army. He
led out his army and left the baggage behind. He is charged with
treason.<a class="ref" id="ref125" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note125" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">125</a>
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R16">16</a>
I&nbsp;believe that I&nbsp;have made clear what the Types of Issue are
and what are their subdivisions. Now I&nbsp;must illustrate the proper
ways and means of treating these, first indicating what both sides in a
cause ought to fix upon as the point to which the complete economy of
the entire speech should be directed.
</p><p class="justify" id="p51"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p51&nbsp;</span>
<a class="sec" name="26">26</a>&nbsp;Immediately upon finding the Type of Issue, then, we must seek the Justifying Motive.<a class="ref" id="ref126" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note126" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">126</a>
It is this which determines the action and comprises the defence. Thus
Orestes (for the sake of clarity, to adhere to this particular action)
confesses that he slew his mother. Unless he had advanced a Justifying
Motive for the act, he will have ruined his defence. He therefore
advances one; were it not interposed, there would not even be an action.
"For she," says he, "had slain my father."<a class="ref" id="ref127" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note127" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">127</a>
Thus, as I&nbsp;have shown, the Justifying Motive is what comprises the
defence; without it not even the slightest doubt could exist which
would delay his condemnation.
</p><p class="justify">
Upon finding the Motive advanced in Justification we must seek the Central Point<a class="ref" id="ref128" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note128" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">128</a>
of the Accusation, that is, that which comprises the accusation and is
presented in opposition to the Justifying Motive of the defence which
I&nbsp;have discussed above. This will be established as follows: When
Orestes has used the Justifying Motive: "I&nbsp;had the right to kill my
mother, for she had slain my father," the prosecutor will use his
Central Point: "Yes, but not by your hand ought she to have been killed
or punished without a trial."<a class="ref" id="ref129" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note129" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">129</a>
</p><p class="justify">
From the Justifying Motive of the defence and the Central Point of the
Accusation must arise the Question for Decision, which we call the Point
to
<a id="p53"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p53&nbsp;</span></a>Adjudicate and the Greeks the <span class="translit_Greek">krinomenon</span>.
That will be established from the meeting of the prosecutor's Central
Point and the defendant's Justifying Motive, as follows: When Orestes
says that he killed his mother to avenge his father, was it right for
Clytemnestra to be slain by her son without a trial? This, then, is the
proper method of finding the Point to Adjudicate. Once the Point to
Adjudicate is found, the complete economy of the entire speech ought to
be directed to it.
</p><p class="justify">
<a class="chapter" name="R17">17</a>
<a class="sec" name="27">27</a>&nbsp;The Points to Adjudicate will be found in this way in all Types of Issue and their subdivisions, except the conjectural.<a class="ref" id="ref130" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note130" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">130</a>
Here the Justifying Motive for the act is not in question, for the act
is denied, near is the Central Point of the Accusation sought, for no
Justifying Motive has been advanced. Therefore the Point to Adjudicate
is established from the Accusation<a class="ref" id="ref131" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note131" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">131</a> and the Denial,<a class="ref" id="ref132" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note132" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EdNote,WIDTH,180)" onmouseout="nd();">132</a>
as follows: Accusation: "You killed Ajax." Denial: "I&nbsp;did not."
The Point to Adjudicate: Did he kill him? The complete economy of both
speeches must, as I&nbsp;have said above, be directed to this Point to
Adjudicate. If there are several Types of Issue or their subdivisions in
one cause, there will also be several Points to Adjudicate, but all
these, too, will be determined by a like method.
</p><p class="justify">
I&nbsp;have taken great pains to discuss briefly and clearly the matters
that have had to be treated up to this point. Now, since this Book has
grown to sufficient length, it will be more convenient in turn to
expound other matters in a second Book, so that the great amount of
material may not tire you and slacken your attention. If I&nbsp;dispatch
these matters too slowly for your eagerness, you will have to
<a id="p55"><span class="pagenum">&nbsp;p55&nbsp;</span></a>attribute
that to the magnitude of the subject and also to the demands of my other
occupations. Yet I&nbsp;shall make speed, and compensate by diligence
for the time taken up by my affairs, to the end that, by this gift, in
token of your courtesy towards me and my own interest in you, I&nbsp;may
grant your desire in most <span class="whole">bounti</span>­ful measure.
</p><hr class="endnotes"><a id="endnotes"></a>
<h2>
The Loeb Editor's Notes:
</h2>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note1" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref1" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">1</a>
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4A*.html#1" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
The beginning of Book&nbsp;4
</a>
further sets forth the author's attitude to the Greek writers on rhetoric (who these are specifically is uncertain); <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;also
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/3*.html#38" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
3.xxiii.38</a>. For his attitude to philosophical studies see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4C*.html#practice_and_practice" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
the end of Book&nbsp;4</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note2" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref2" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">2</a>
Apparently text-books on public speaking sold well; see Theodore Birt, <i>Rhein. Mus.</i>&nbsp;72 (1917/18), 31116.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
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The definition is that of Hermagoras, to whom the function (<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἔργον</span>) of the perfect orator is <span lang="el" class="Greek">τὸ τεθὲν πολιτικὸν ζήτημα διατίθεσθαι κατὰ τὸ ἐνδεχόμενον πειστικῶς</span>. See Sextus Empiricus, <i>Adv. Rhet.</i>&nbsp;62, ed.&nbsp;Fabricius, 2.150. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#6" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.v.6</a>.
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<span lang="el" class="Greek">γένη</span>.
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<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἐπιδεικτικόν</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">συμβουλευτικόν</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">δικανικόν</span>. The scheme is Aristotelian (<i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;1.3, 1358<span class="small">B</span>) but in essence older. The
<a id="p5x"></a>author's emphasis in the first two books, on the judicial kind, is characteristically Hellenistic (<i>e.g.</i>,&nbsp;Hermagorean).
The better tradition indicates that originally rhetoric was concerned
with the judicial kind, and was later extended to the other two fields.
For a study of the three <span lang="la" class="Latin">genera</span> see D.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;Hinks, <i>Class. Quarterly</i>&nbsp;30&nbsp;(1936), 1706<!--</A>JOURNAL:CQ:30-->. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#7" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.v.7</a>.
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<span lang="el" class="Greek">προτροπή</span> and <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀποτροπή</span>.
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<span lang="el" class="Greek">κατηγορία</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">δίκη</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀπολογία</span>.
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<a class="note" id="note8" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref8" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">8</a>
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#2" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.ii.2
</a>
below.
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<span lang="el" class="Greek">εὕρεσις</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">τάξις</span> or <span lang="el" class="Greek">οἰκονομία</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">λέξις</span> or <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἑρημνεία</span> or <span lang="el" class="Greek">φράσις</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">μνήμη</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ὑπόκρισις</span>. The <span class="whole">pre-Aristotelian</span> rhetoric, represented by the <i>Rhet. ad&nbsp;Alexandrum</i>, treated the first three (without classifying them); Aristotle would add Delivery (<i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;3.1, 1403<span class="small">B</span>), and his pupil Theophrastus did so (see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/3*.html#note60" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
note on 3.xi.19
</a>
below). When precisely in the Hellenistic period Memory was added as a
fifth division by the Rhodian or the Pergamene school, we do not know.
These faculties (<span lang="la" class="Latin">res</span>; see also 1.ii.3<!-- sic; DO NOT LINK -->) are referred to in
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#1" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.i.1
</a>
below (<i>cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#4" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">1.iii.4</a>) as the speaker's <i>functions</i> (<span lang="la" class="Latin">officia</span> =&nbsp;<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἔργα τοῦ ῥήτορος</span>). Quintilian,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/3A*.html#3.11" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
3.3.11&nbsp;ff.</a>, considers them as departments or constituent elements of the art (<span lang="la" class="Latin">partes rhetorices</span>) rather than as <span lang="la" class="Latin">opera</span> (=&nbsp;<span lang="la" class="Latin">officia</span>); so also here at
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/3*.html#1" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
3.i.1</a>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/3*.html#15" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
3.viii.15</a>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/3*.html#28" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
3.xvi.28</a>, and
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#9" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.vii.9</a>. <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἔργον</span> is an Aristotelian concept (<i>cf.</i>&nbsp;the definition of rhetoric in <i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;1.12, 1355<span class="small">B</span>),
and Aristotle was the first to classify the (major) functions. Our
author here gives the usual order of the divisions; so also
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/oratore1.shtml#142" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Oratore</i>&nbsp;1.31.142</a>.
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diogenes_Laertius/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/7/Zeno*.html#43" target="Diogenes_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
Diogenes Laertius, 7.43</a>, presents the Stoic scheme: Invention, Style (<span lang="el" class="Greek">φράσις</span>), Arrangement, and Delivery. A&nbsp;goodly number of rhetorical systems were actually based on these <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἔργα</span> (<i>e.g.</i>,&nbsp;in most part Cicero's and Quintilian's); others were based on the divisions of the discourse (<span lang="el" class="Greek">μόρια λόγου</span>). See K.&nbsp;Barwick, <i>Hermes</i>&nbsp;57&nbsp;(1922),&nbsp;1&nbsp;ff.; Friedrich Solmsen, <i>Amer. Journ. Philol.</i>&nbsp;62&nbsp;(1941), 3550<!--</A>JOURNAL:AJP:62-->, 16990<!--</A>JOURNAL:AJP:62-->. Our author conflates the two schemes he has inherited;
<a id="p7x"></a>see especially 1.ii.3iii.4 <!--DO NOT LINK-->,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#1" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.i.1ii.2</a>, and the Introduction to the present volume,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/Introduction*.html#pxviii" target="princeps" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
p.&nbsp;xviii</a>.
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The concept goes back at least as far as Plato (<i>e.g.</i>,&nbsp;<i>Phaedrus</i>&nbsp;236<span class="small">A</span>); see Aristotle, <i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;1.2 (1355<span class="small">B</span>), on finding artistic proofs.
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<span lang="el" class="Greek">τέχνη</span> (also <span lang="el" class="Greek">παιδεία</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἐπιστήμη</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">μάθησις</span>, <span lang="la" class="Latin">scientia</span>, <span lang="la" class="Latin">doctrina</span>), <span lang="el" class="Greek">μίμησις</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">γυμνασία</span> (also <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἄσκησις</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">μελέτη</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἐμπειρία</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">συνήθεία</span>, <span lang="la" class="Latin">declamatio</span>). The usual triad, Nature (<span lang="el" class="Greek">φύσις</span>, <span lang="la" class="Latin">natura</span>, <span lang="la" class="Latin">ingenium</span>, <span lang="la" class="Latin">facultas</span>), Theory and Practice, can be traced back to Protagoras, Plato (<i>Phaedrus</i>&nbsp;269<span class="small">D</span>), and Isocrates (<i>e.g.</i>,&nbsp;<i>Antid.</i>&nbsp;187<!-- ISOCRATES -->; <i>Adv.&nbsp;Soph.</i>&nbsp;1418<!-- ISOCRATES -->, where Imitation is also included). <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;also Aristotle in
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diogenes_Laertius/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/5/Aristotle*.html#18" target="Diogenes_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
Diogenes Laertius&nbsp;5.18</a>; Cicero,
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#2" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
<i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.i.2</a>,
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/oratore1.shtml#14" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
<i>De&nbsp;Oratore</i>&nbsp;1.4.14</a>; Dionysius Halic. in Syrianus, <i>Scholia Hermog.</i>, ed.&nbsp;Rabe, 1.45;
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.dialogus.shtml#33" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Tacitus, <i>Dialog. de Orator.</i>, ch.&nbsp;33</a>;
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_liberis_educandis*.html#4" target="Plutarch" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
Plutarch, <i>De&nbsp;liberis educ.</i>&nbsp;4 (2<span class="small">A</span>)</a>; and see Paul Shorey, <i>Trans. Am. Philol. Assn.</i>&nbsp;40&nbsp;(1909), 185201<!--</A>JOURNAL:TAPA:40-->. Imitation is presumed to have been emphasized in the Pergamene school of rhetors under Stoic influence. Quintilian,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/3A*.html#5" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
3.5.1</a>, tells us that it was classed by some writers as a&nbsp;fourth element, which he yet subordinates to Theory. On Imitation <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;Antonius in
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/oratore2.shtml#89" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Oratore</i>&nbsp;2.21.89&nbsp;ff.</a>; Dionysius Halic., <i>De&nbsp;Imitat.</i> (<i>Opuscula</i>&nbsp;2.197217, ed.&nbsp;<span class="whole">Usener-Radermacher</span>);
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/10A*.html#1.20" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
Quintilian, 10.1.20&nbsp;ff.</a>; Eduard Stemplinger, <i>Das Plagiat in der Griech. Lit.</i>, Leipzig and Berlin, 1912, pp81&nbsp;ff.; Kroll, "Rhetorik", coll.&nbsp;1113&nbsp;ff.; Paulus Otto, <i>Quaestiones selectae ad libellum qui est <span lang="el" class="Greek">περὶ ὕψους</span> spectantes</i>, diss. Kiel, 1906,
<a id="p8x"></a> pp619; G.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;Fiske, <i>Lucilius and Horace</i>, Madison, 1920, ch.&nbsp;1; J.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;D'Alton, <i>Roman Literary Theory and Criticism</i>,
London, New&nbsp;York, and Toronto, 1931, pp426&nbsp;ff.; Richard
McKeon, "Literary Criticism and the Concept of Imitation in Antiquity," <i>Mod. Philol.</i>
34,&nbsp;1&nbsp;(1936),&nbsp;135, and esp. pp26&nbsp;ff.;
D.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;Clark, "Imitation: Theory and Practice in Roman
Rhetoric," <i>Quart. Journ. Speech</i>&nbsp;37,&nbsp;1&nbsp;(1951), 1122. "Exercise" refers to the <span lang="la" class="Latin">progymnasmata</span>, of which our treatise and Cicero's <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i> show the first traces in Latin rhetoric, and to the "<span lang="la" class="Latin">suasoriae</span>" (<span lang="la" class="Latin">deliberationes</span>) and "<span lang="la" class="Latin">controversiae</span>" (<span lang="la" class="Latin">causae</span>) in which the treatise abounds. See also
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4C*.html#58" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.xliv.58
</a>
(Refining). The divorce between <span lang="la" class="Latin">praeexercitamenta</span> and <span lang="la" class="Latin">exercitationes</span> belongs to the Augustan period.
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The author's treatment of the parts of a discourse differs from that of Aristotle, who, in <i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;3.13 (1414<span class="small">A</span>)&nbsp;ff.,
discusses them — Proem, Statement of Facts, Proof, and Conclusion —
with all three kinds of oratory in view, not only the judicial, under
Arrangement. Note that Invention is applied
<a id="p9x"></a> concretely to the parts of the discourse; in
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#18" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.xi.18&nbsp;ff.
</a>
below the Issues are subjoined to Proof and Refutation. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#19" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xiv.19</a>. The Stoic scheme included Proem, Statement of Facts, Replies to Opponents, and Conclusion
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diogenes_Laertius/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/7/Zeno*.html#43" target="Diogenes_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
(Diogenes Laertius&nbsp;7.43)</a>.
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<a class="note" id="note13" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref13" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">13</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">πρασκευάζεται</span>. The concept is Isocratean. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<i>Rhet. ad&nbsp;Alex.</i>, ch.&nbsp;29 (1436<span class="small">A</span>); Dionysius Halic., <i>De&nbsp;Lys.</i>&nbsp;17; Anon. Seg.&nbsp;5 and&nbsp;9 (<span class="whole">Spengel-Hammer</span>&nbsp;1[2].3534); Rufus&nbsp;4 (<span class="whole">Spengel-Hammer</span> 1[2].399); Anon., in Rabe, <i>Proleg. Sylloge</i>, p62.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note14" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref14" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">14</a>
This definition is translated directly from a Greek original; see Hermogenes, <i>Progymn.</i>&nbsp;2 (ed.&nbsp;Rabe, p4), Syrianus, <i>Scholia Hermog.</i> (ed.&nbsp;Rabe 2.170), Theon&nbsp;4 (Spengel 2.78). <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#27" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xix.27</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note15" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref15" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">15</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#34" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xxiv.34</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note16" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref16" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">16</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#78" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xlii.78</a> (<span lang="la" class="Latin">reprehensio</span>).
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note17" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref17" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">17</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">πρόλογος</span>, probably.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note18" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref18" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">18</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἔνδοξον</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">παράδοξον</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀμφίδοξον</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἄδοξον</span>, the <span lang="el" class="Greek">σχήματα ὑποθέσεων</span>, later sometimes called <span lang="la" class="Latin">figurae materiarum</span> or <span lang="la" class="Latin">controversiarum</span>. The classification is on a moral basis. These <span lang="la" class="Latin">genera causarum</span> are not to be confused with the three <span lang="la" class="Latin">genera causarum</span> treated in
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#2" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.ii.2
</a>
above. Most rhetoricians (<i>e.g.</i>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#20" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xv.20</a>) treated also a fifth kind, <span lang="la" class="Latin">obscurum</span> (<span lang="el" class="Greek">δυσπαρακολούθητον</span>), and some included six kinds (see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/4A*.html#1.40" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
Quintilian, 4.1.40</a>). The division into four <span lang="el" class="Greek">σχήματα</span> is Hermagorean (<i>cf.</i>&nbsp;Augustine, <i>De&nbsp;Rhet.</i>&nbsp;1.17&nbsp;ff.<!--</A>AUGUSTINE:RHET-->, in Halm, pp147&nbsp;ff.), and
<a id="p11x"></a>here our author conflates Hermagorean doctrine with the <span class="whole">pre-Aristotelian</span> doctrine of the Proem; see Georg Thiele, <i>Hermagoras</i>, Strassburg, 1893, pp113121.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note19" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref19" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">19</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">προοίμιον</span>, "Prelude"; see Aristotle, <i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;3.14 (1414<span class="small">B</span>),
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/4A*.html#1.2" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
Quintilian, 4.1.2&nbsp;ff.</a>, Anon. Seg.&nbsp;4, in <span class="whole">Spengel-Hammer</span> 1(2).3523. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#20" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xv.20</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note20" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref20" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">20</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἔφοδος</span>. The term is used in <i>Oxyr. Pap.</i>&nbsp;3.27, in a rhetorical treatise of perhaps the beginning of the fourth century&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span> In <i>Isaeus</i>&nbsp;3, Dionysius Halic. comments on Isaeus' use of <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἔφοδοι</span>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;also Anon., in Rabe, <i>Proleg. Syll.</i>, p206, and Anon., <i>Proleg. Invent.</i>, in Walz&nbsp;7(1).54.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note21" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref21" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">21</a>
The hearer is to be rendered <span lang="el" class="Greek">προσεκτικός</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">εὐμαθής</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">εὔνους</span>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#22" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xvi.223</a>. The doctrine is <span class="whole">pre-Aristotelian</span>; see, <i>e.g.</i>,&nbsp;<i>Rhet. ad&nbsp;Alex.</i>, ch.&nbsp;29 (1436<span class="small">A</span>), and <i>Epist. Socrat.</i>&nbsp;30.4 on Isocrates. Aristotle, <i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;3.14 (1415<span class="small">A</span>), includes Receptiveness under Attention. Cicero,
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/partitione.shtml" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(EClickHere+'Cicero\'s<BR><I>De Partitione Oratoria</I>'+Lat2+LatSearch+'ut amice</SPAN>',WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
<i>Part. Orat.</i>&nbsp;8.28</a>, gives three aims for the Direct Opening; <span lang="la" class="Latin">ut&nbsp;amice</span>, <span lang="la" class="Latin">ut
<a id="p13x"></a>intellegenter</span>, <span lang="la" class="Latin">ut attente audiamur</span>. For the importance of Attention in <span class="whole">present-day</span> rhetoric, <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;J.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;Winans, <i>Public Speaking</i>,
New&nbsp;York, 1917, p194: "Persuasion is the process of indu­cing
others to give fair, favourable, or undivided attention to
propositions."
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note22" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref22" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">22</a>
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#9" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.vi.9&nbsp;ff.</a>
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<a class="note" id="note23" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref23" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">23</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<i>Rhet. ad&nbsp;Alex.</i>, ch.&nbsp;29 (1437<span class="small">B</span>):
"If there is no prejudice against ourselves or our speech or our
subject, we shall set forth our Proposition immediately at the
beginning, appealing for attention and a benevolent hearing afterwards."
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note24" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref24" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">24</a>
So Aristotle, <i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;3.14 (1415<span class="small">A</span>), and Anon. Seg.&nbsp;7 (<span class="whole">Spengel-Hammer</span> 1[2].3534): <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ</span> or <span lang="el" class="Greek">τοῦ λέγοντος</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἐκ τοῦ ἐναντίου</span> or <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀντιδίκου</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἐκ τῶν ἀκροατῶν</span> or <span lang="el" class="Greek">δικαζόντων</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἐκ τῶν πραγμάτων</span>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;also
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#22" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xvi.22</a>. Here as throughout the first two books the author is dealing with judicial oratory.
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<a class="note" id="note25" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref25" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">25</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">πάθος</span>, here assigned to the Introduction, also has a place in the Conclusion; see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#48" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.xxx.48xxxi.50
</a>
below. Thus the
<a id="p15x"></a>author accords with the early Greek rhetoric based on
the divisions of the discourse. Nowhere does he make a profound
analytical study of the emotions such as we find in Aristotle, <i>Rhet.</i>, Bk.&nbsp;<span class="small">II</span>. In Anon. Seg.&nbsp;6 (<span class="whole">Spengel-Hammer</span>&nbsp;1[2].353)
are listed five emotions of the hearer which play a part in the
function of the Proem: pity, anger, fear, hate, and desire.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note26" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref26" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">26</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἔχθρα</span> or <span lang="el" class="Greek">μῖσος</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">φθόνος</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ὀργή</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note27" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref27" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">27</a>
In
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#23" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xvii.23</a>, the Subtle Approach is specifically used in the <span lang="la" class="Latin">admirabile genus causae</span>. The three <span lang="la" class="Latin">causae</span> of Cicero correspond to the "occasions" classified by our author. Anon. Seg.&nbsp;21&nbsp;ff. (<span class="whole">Spengel-Hammer</span>
1[2].357&nbsp;ff.) gives four occasions on which the Prooemion should
be dispensed with, and discusses the view that it must always be used.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note28" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref28" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">28</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#24" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xvii.24</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note29" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref29" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">29</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">παραφθέγγεσθαι</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note30" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref30" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">30</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#25" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xvii.25</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note31" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref31" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">31</a>
See
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B*.html#40" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.xxix.40
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note32" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref32" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">32</a>
Note that humour enters the rhetorical system under the Introduction. Aristotle, <i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;3.14 (1415<span class="small">A</span>),
also discusses the place of laughter in the Proem. This classification
of eighteen means of provoking laughter must have been a recent
accession to rhetorical theory; <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;the summary in
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/oratore2.shtml#248" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Oratore</i>&nbsp;2.61.248&nbsp;ff.</a> On wit and humour in ancient rhetoric, see E.&nbsp;Arndt, <i>De&nbsp;ridiculi doctrina rhetorica</i>, Bonn, 1904;
<a id="p19x"></a>Mary&nbsp;A. Grant, <i>The Ancient Rhetorical Theories of the Laughable</i>, Madison, 1924; and Wilhelm Kroll in P.W., art&nbsp;"Rhetorik," coll.&nbsp;10767. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;also Wilhelm Süss, <i>Neue Jahrb.</i>&nbsp;23&nbsp;(1920), 2845.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note33" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref33" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">33</a>
Of the adversary's argument, perhaps.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note34" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref34" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">34</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">παρὰ προσδοκίαν</span>.
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<a class="note" id="note35" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref35" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">35</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">λαθραίως δι’&nbsp;ἑτέρων λόγων</span>. Anon., <i>Proleg. Invent.</i>, in Walz&nbsp;7(1).54.1416, gives the same precept.
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<a class="note" id="note36" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref36" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">36</a>
Anon. Seg.&nbsp;19 (<span class="whole">Spengel-Hammer</span> 1[2].356) makes the same point.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note37" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref37" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">37</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#26" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xviii.26</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note38" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref38" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">38</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">διήγησις</span>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#27" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xix.27</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note39" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref39" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">39</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">διηγήσεις ἐπὶ κριτῶν λεγόμεναι</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note40" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref40" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">40</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">διαβολή</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note41" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref41" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">41</a>
Incidental Narrative (<span lang="el" class="Greek">παραδιήγησις</span>); <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/9B*.html#2.107" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">Quintilian, 9.2.107</a>, and Anon. Seg.&nbsp;61 (<span class="whole">Spengel-Hammer</span> 1[2].3645), who distinguishes it from Digression (<span lang="el" class="Greek">παρέκβασις</span>).
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note42" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref42" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">42</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">διηγήσεις καθ’&nbsp;ἑαυτάς</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note43" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref43" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">43</a>
The reference is to the <span lang="la" class="Latin">progymnasmata</span> (<span lang="la" class="Latin">praeexercitamenta</span>). <span lang="la" class="Latin">Narratio</span> provided the first exercises imposed by the rhetor; see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/2A*.html#4" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
Quintilian,&nbsp;2.4.1</a>, and Jean Cousin, <i>Études sur Quintilien</i>, Paris, 1936, 1.113.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note44" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref44" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">44</a>
According to <span lang="el" class="Greek">τὰ πράγματα</span> or <span lang="el" class="Greek">τὰ πρόσωπα</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note45" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref45" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">45</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">μῦθος</span>, but see Cousin, <i>op.&nbsp;cit.</i>, 1.113, note&nbsp;4. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;Aristotle, <i>Poetics</i>&nbsp;9 (1451<span class="small">A</span>):
"The poet's function is to describe, not the things that actually have
happened, but the kind of things that might well happen — that are
possible in the sense of being either probable or inevitable." But it is
doubtless the miraculous element in tragedies that is here in mind; see
the example of <span lang="la" class="Latin">fabula</span> in
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#27" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xix.27</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note46" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref46" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">46</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἱστορία</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note47" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref47" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">47</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">πλάσμα</span>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<span lang="la" class="Latin">argumentum</span> (Presumptive Proof) in
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#3" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.ii.3</a>, and <span lang="la" class="Latin">argumentatio</span> (argument) in
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#2" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.ii.2
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note48" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref48" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">48</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;the figure <span lang="la" class="Latin">notatio</span> (Character Delineation),
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4C*.html#63" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.l.63
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note49" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref49" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">49</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<!--
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on writing history: "For nothing is so suited to the delight of the
reader as are shifting circumstances and the vicissitudes of fortune.<span class="emend">"</span> Concerning our author's doctrine of <span lang="la" class="Latin">narratio</span> as reflecting Hellenistic ideas on historiography and story writing, see
<a id="p25x"></a>R.&nbsp;Reitzenstein, <i>Hellenistische Wundererzählungen</i>, Leipzig, 1906, pp84&nbsp;ff., and for further interpretations of these sections dealing with <span lang="la" class="Latin">narratio</span> (and of
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#27" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xix.27</a>), Karl Barwick, <i>Hermes</i>&nbsp;63,&nbsp;3&nbsp;(1928), 26187, and Friedrich Pfister, <i>Hermes</i>&nbsp;68,&nbsp;4&nbsp;(1933), 45760.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note50" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref50" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">50</a>
The <span lang="la" class="Latin">narratio</span> is developed (<span lang="la" class="Latin">tractatio</span> =&nbsp;<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἐξεργασία</span>) in the <span lang="la" class="Latin">progymnasmata</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note51" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref51" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">51</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">συντομία</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">σαφήνεια</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">πιθανότης</span>. The precept is Isocratean (see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/4B*.html#2.31" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
Quintilian, 4.2.312</a>) or even older (see Octave Navarre, <i>Essai sur la rhétorique grecque avant Aristote</i>, Paris, 1900, p246). Aristotle, <i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;3.16 (1416<span class="small">B</span>), scorns the injunction of brevity in favour of the "proper mean." <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#28" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xx.28</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note52" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref52" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">52</a>
Presented <span lang="el" class="Greek">κεφαλαιωδῶς</span>, not <span lang="el" class="Greek">μερικῶς</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note53" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref53" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">53</a>
Doxapatres (eleventh century), in Walz&nbsp;2.230, gives the same example; it is doubtless Greek in origin.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note54" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref54" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">54</a>
The author of these iambic trimeters and the name of the comedy from which they come are both unknown. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/plautus/miles.shtml" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(EClickHere+'Plautus\' <I>Miles Gloriosus</I>'+Lat2+LatSearch+'heri Athenis</SPAN>',WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Plautus, <i>Miles Gloriosus</i>&nbsp;439</a>: <span lang="la" class="Latin">quae heri Athenis Ephesum adveni vesperi</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note55" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref55" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">55</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#29" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xx.29</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note56" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref56" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">56</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ὑπερβατῶς</span>, in inverted order.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note57" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref57" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">57</a>
In
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#14" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.ix.14
</a>
above.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note58" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref58" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">58</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#29" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i> 1.xxi.2930</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note59" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref59" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">59</a>
See
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note27" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
note on 1.vi.9
</a>
above. Our author's doctrine of the Subtle Approach is Greek in origin,
although we know no specific Greek source for the three occasions. That
Cicero in <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;presents a like classification makes our author's
<a id="p29x"></a>claim difficult to explain; see the Introduction to the present volume,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/Introduction*.html#his_own_innovation" target="princeps" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
pp.&nbsp;xxixxxx</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note60" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref60" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">60</a>
"Outlining of the case," the Analysis. <span lang="el" class="Greek">προκατασκευή</span>, a combination of <span lang="el" class="Greek">προέκθεσις</span> and <span lang="el" class="Greek">μερισμός</span>. In
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#31" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i> 1.xxii.31xxiii.33</a>, <span lang="la" class="Latin">partitio</span>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;the figure <span lang="la" class="Latin">divisio</span>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4C*.html#52" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.xl.52
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note61" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref61" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">61</a>
Martianus Capella, 5.556<!--</A>CAPELLA5-->, makes the same point for the <span lang="la" class="Latin">partitio</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note62" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref62" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">62</a>
A&nbsp;favourite theme of the rhetoricians; <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;also
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#25" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.xv.25 and 1.xvi.26
</a>
below, Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#18" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.xiii.18xiv.19</a>,
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#21" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.xxii.31</a>, Quintilian,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/3C*.html#11.4" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
3.11.4&nbsp;ff.</a>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/3A*.html#5.11" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
3.5.11</a>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/7C*.html#4.8" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
7.4.8</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note63" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref63" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">63</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;the figure <span lang="la" class="Latin">distributio</span>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4C*.html#47" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.xxxv.47</a>, and <span lang="la" class="Latin">distributio</span>, the Broken Tone of Debate,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/3*.html#23" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
3.xiii.23
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note64" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref64" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">64</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;the <span lang="la" class="Latin">enumeratio</span> (Summing Up) of
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#47" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.xxx.47
</a>
below. Quintilian,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/4C*.html#5.24" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.5.24</a>, praises Hortensius for the great pains he took with his
Partitions, "although Cicero often lightly mocks him for counting his
points on his fingers."
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note65" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref65" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">65</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἔκθεσις</span>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;the <span lang="la" class="Latin">expositio</span> (Proposition of an argument) in
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#32" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.xx.32</a>, and
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#note90" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
note on 2.xviii.28
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note66" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref66" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">66</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/brut.shtml#217" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>Brutus</i> 60.217
</a>
on Curio: "His memory was so altogether wanting that at times when he
had announced three points he would add a&nbsp;fourth or miss the
third."
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note67" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref67" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">67</a>
See
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4A*.html#note37" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
note on 4.vii.10
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note68" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref68" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">68</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">πίστις</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">κατασκευὴ<!-- sic --> κεφαλαίων</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note69" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref69" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">69</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀνασκευή</span>. In the <i>Rhet. ad&nbsp;Alex.</i>, ch.&nbsp;7 (1428<span class="small">A</span>), Refutation is considered as one of seven subheads under Proof; see also ch.&nbsp;13 (1431<span class="small">A</span>).
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note70" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref70" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">70</a>
I&nbsp;follow the practice, perhaps begun by Thomas Wilson, <i>Arte of Rhetorique</i> (first&nbsp;ed. 1553), ed.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;Mair, Oxford, 1910, p89, of translating <span lang="la" class="Latin">constitutio</span> (or <span lang="la" class="Latin">status</span> [=&nbsp;<span lang="el" class="Greek">στάσις</span>], the term used by Cicero, except in <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>, and by most other rhetoricians) as "Issue." The <span lang="la" class="Latin">constitutio</span> (=&nbsp;<span lang="el" class="Greek">σύστασις</span>, most probably; see S.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;Bonner, <i>Class. Rev.</i>&nbsp;61
[1947], 846) is the conjoining of two conflicting statements, thus
forming the centre of the argument and determining the character of the
case; for a study of the meaning of <span lang="la" class="Latin">status</span>;&nbsp;and of <span lang="la" class="Latin">constitutio</span> see A.&nbsp;O.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;Dieter, <i>Speech Monographs</i>&nbsp;17,&nbsp;4&nbsp;(1950), 34569. Our author makes use of the <span lang="la" class="Latin">status</span> system only for judicial oratory, the examples being drawn from both criminal and civil causes. Adumbrated in <span class="whole">pre-Aristotelian</span> rhetoric (where it was close to Attic procedure), as well as in Aristotle's <i>Rhetoric</i>,
it was developed principally by Hermagoras. Stoic and Aristotelian
dialectic exerted an influence in its evolution. The terminology and
Roman examples show that our author assimilated the Greek theory. His
system differs considerably from that of Hermagoras; see Kroehnert,
pp21&nbsp;ff.;
<a id="p33x"></a>Hermann Netzker, <i>Hermagoras, Cicero, Cornificius quae docuerint de&nbsp;"statibus"</i>,<!-- Loeb: comma inside the quote --> Kiel diss., 1879, and "Die <span lang="la" class="Latin">constitutio legitima</span> des Cornificius," <i>Neue Jahrbücher</i>&nbsp;133&nbsp;(1886), 41116; Heinrich Weber, <i>Ueber die Quellen der Rhet. ad&nbsp;Her. des Cornificius</i>, Zurich diss., 1886; Thiele, <i>Hermagoras</i>; Walter Jaeneke, <i>De&nbsp;statuum doctrina ab&nbsp;Hermogene tradita</i>, Leipzig, 1904; Claus Peters, <i>De&nbsp;rationibus inter artem rhetoricam quarti et primi saeculi intercedentibus</i>, Kiel diss., 1907, pp10&nbsp;ff.; Kroll in P.W., art.&nbsp;"Rhetorik," coll.&nbsp;10905. Cicero's system in
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#10" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
<i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.viii.10&nbsp;ff.
</a>
differs from that of our author. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/3B*.html#6" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">Quintilian, 3.6.1&nbsp;ff.
</a>
Most critics see our author as a follower of Marcus Antonius in his system of <span lang="la" class="Latin">status</span> <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/3B*.html#6.45" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">Quintilian, 3.6.45&nbsp;ff.
</a>
(note that <span lang="la" class="Latin">legalis</span>, not <span lang="la" class="Latin">legitimus</span> is the term used for the "Legal" Issue by the followers of Antonius), and Kroehnert, <i>loc.&nbsp;cit.</i> Modern students of Roman Law for the most part think that from the juristic point of view, as against the rhetorical, the <span lang="la" class="Latin">status</span> system was <span class="whole">over-intricate</span> and impractical; see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#note54" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
note on 2.xiii.19
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note71" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref71" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">71</a>
Hermagoras taught four Types of Issue; see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note81" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
note on Transference, 1.xi.19</a>, below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note72" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref72" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">72</a>
See Introduction,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/Introduction*.html#just_a_student_maybe" target="princeps" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
pp.&nbsp;xxi&nbsp;ff.</a>, esp.&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/Introduction*.html#lecture_notes" target="princeps" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">p.&nbsp;xxiii</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note73" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref73" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">73</a>
For the spelling <span lang="la" class="Latin">iuridicalis</span> see Stroebel, <i>Tulliana</i>, p20.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note74" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref74" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">74</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">στοχασμός</span>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#11" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.viii.11</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note75" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref75" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">75</a>
See the <span lang="la" class="Latin">progymnasma</span> in
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#28" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.xviii.28xix.30
</a>
below. Resenting the award of the arms of Achilles to Ulysses, Ajax goes
mad and slaughters a flock of sheep, thinking them his enemies. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;Hermogenes, <i>De&nbsp;Stat.</i>&nbsp;3
(ed.&nbsp;Rabe, pp49 and&nbsp;54): A&nbsp;man is discovered burying in a
lonely place the body of a person recently slain, and is charged with
murder; Fortunatianus 1.6 (Halm, p85) and&nbsp;1.8 (Halm,&nbsp;p87).
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note76" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref76" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">76</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">στάσις νομική</span>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#17" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xiii.17</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note77" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref77" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">77</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">στάσις κατὰ ῥητὸν καὶ διάνοιαν</span>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;the <span lang="la" class="Latin">sententia</span> (Maxim) of
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B*.html#24" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.xvii.24
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note78" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref78" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">78</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀντινομία</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note79" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref79" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">79</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀμφιβολία</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note80" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref80" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">80</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ὅρος</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note81" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref81" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">81</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">μετάληψις</span>. Procedural in nature. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<span lang="la" class="Latin">translatio criminis</span>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#24" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.xiv.24</a>, and the figure <span lang="la" class="Latin">translatio</span>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B*.html#45" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.xxxiv.45
</a>
below. Hermagoras was the first to enter this among the Types of Issue; see
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#16" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xi.16</a>, and
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/3B*.html#6.60" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
Quintilian, 3.6.60</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note82" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref82" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">82</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">συλλογισμός</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note83" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref83" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">83</a>
This <span lang="la" class="Latin">controversia</span> is of Greek origin; <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;Hermogenes, <i>De&nbsp;Stat.</i>&nbsp;2 (ed.&nbsp;Rabe, p41), Fortunatianus 1.26 (Halm, pp100&nbsp;f.) and
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione2.shtml#153" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;2.li.153</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note84" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref84" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">84</a>
On the importance of this type of rhetorical discussion for juristic theory see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#note54" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
note on 2.xiii.19
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note85" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref85" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">85</a>
Doubtless the law of C.&nbsp;Servilius Glaucia <span lang="la" class="Latin">de pecuniis repetundis</span> (111&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>).
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note86" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref86" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">86</a>
The law of Cn.&nbsp;Domitius Ahenobarbus <span lang="la" class="Latin">de&nbsp;sacerdotiis</span> passed in&nbsp;104&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span> and repealed by Sulla in (?)&nbsp;81&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>, is here indicated.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note87" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref87" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">87</a>
When specifically the case came up we do not know; Marx, <i>Proleg.</i>, p108, conjectures <i>c.</i>&nbsp;100&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note88" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref88" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">88</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione2.shtml#116" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;2.xl.116</a>;
Lucilius&nbsp;16.5523<!--</A>LUCILIUS-->.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note89" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref89" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">89</a>
At the Comitia; over these the voters passed in single file to the <span lang="la" class="Latin">saepta</span>&nbsp;in the Campus Martius to deposit their votes.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note90" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref90" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">90</a>
Probably in his second tribunate in&nbsp;100&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>, L.&nbsp;Appuleius Saturninus proposed his law fixing the fee for grain at five-sixths of an&nbsp;<span lang="la" class="Latin">as</span> (for a <span lang="la" class="Latin">modius</span>); the <span lang="la" class="Latin">lex Sempronia frumentaria</span>&nbsp;of&nbsp;123
had set the price at almost eight times that amount. It is uncertain
whether the bill passed. Caepio was in&nbsp;99&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span> charged with treason, but was acquitted. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#17" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">2.xii.17
</a>
(the supposed defence by Caepio), and for Saturninus
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B*.html#31" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.xxii.31
</a>
and
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4C*.html#67" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.liv.67</a>. This Q.&nbsp;Servilius Caepio was the son of the Q.&nbsp;Servilius Caepio referred to in
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#24" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.xiv.24
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note91" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref91" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">91</a>
Literally, what constitutes "impairing the sovereign majesty" of the state. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#17" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">2.xii.17
</a>
and
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B*.html#35" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.xxv.35
</a>
below. The <span lang="la" class="Latin">crimen maiestatis minutae</span> was invented probably in&nbsp;103&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>; the <span lang="la" class="Latin">Lex Appuleia de&nbsp;maiestate</span> attempted to define
<a id="p39x"></a>the offence. See Hugh Last, <i>Camb. Anc.&nbsp;History</i>&nbsp;9.1601. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;Antonius on the trial of Norbanus (95&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>) in Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Oratore</i>
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/oratore2.shtml#107" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.25.107&nbsp;ff.</a>,
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/oratore2.shtml#164" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.39.164</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note92" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref92" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">92</a>
<span class="whole">Anglo-American</span> procedure has no specific analogue to the term <span lang="la" class="Latin">translatio</span>&nbsp;as here defined, nor indeed was this <span lang="la" class="Latin">status</span> suited to Roman juristic procedure. See Theodor Schwalbach, <i>Zeitschr. der <span class="whole">Savigny-Stiftung</span> für Rechtsgeschichte, Romanist. Abt.</i>,&nbsp;2&nbsp;(1881), 20932; Moriz Wlassak, <i>Der Ursprung der römischen Einrede</i> (Festschr. Leopold Pfaff, Vienna, 1910, pp12&nbsp;ff.; and Artur Steinwenter, <i>Sav. Zeitschr.</i>&nbsp;65&nbsp;(1947), 69120, esp.&nbsp;p81, and pp1045. Note also <span lang="la" class="Latin">raro venit in iudicium</span>&nbsp;below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note93" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref93" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">93</a>
The Romans in the preliminary proceedings before the magistrate, where
the issue is defined; the Greeks in the actual trial before the judge.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note94" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref94" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">94</a>
Despite the alteration, the source of this <span lang="la" class="Latin">controversia</span> may originally have been Aristotle, <i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;1.13 (1374<span class="small">A</span>):
"It often happens that a man may admit .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. theft, but not
that the act was sacrilege (on the ground that the thing stolen was not
the property of a god)." <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#11" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.viii.11</a>; Quintilian,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/3B*.html#6.41" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
3.6.41
</a>
and
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/5B*.html#10.39" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
5.10.39</a>; Hermogenes, <i>De&nbsp;Stat.</i>&nbsp;2 (ed.&nbsp;Rabe, p37) and 4 (ed.&nbsp;Rabe, p62); Sopater, in Walz&nbsp;8.1025; also Rabe, <i>Proleg. Syll.</i>, pp218, 253, and 336. On <span lang="la" class="Latin">peculatus publicus</span> see Mommsen, pp764&nbsp;ff.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note95" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref95" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">95</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;Victorinus, in Halm, p276.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note96" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref96" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">96</a>
These counterpleas accepted by the praetor allege new states of fact or of law; although the defendant accepts the <span lang="la" class="Latin">intentio</span> in the plaintiff's <span lang="la" class="Latin">formula</span>, he urges the praetor to permit the insertion of an <span lang="la" class="Latin">exceptio</span> in the <span lang="la" class="Latin">formula</span>. See
<a id="p41x"></a>A.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Greenidge, <i>The Legal Procedure of Cicero's Time</i>, Oxford, 1901, pp178181, 229235; E.&nbsp;Rabel, <i>Sav. Zeitschr.</i>&nbsp;32&nbsp;(1911), 41323; Leopold Wenger, <i>Institutes of the Roman Law of Civil Procedure</i>, tr.&nbsp;O.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;Fisk, New&nbsp;York, 1940, pp155&nbsp;ff. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#10" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">1.vii.10
</a>
and
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione2.shtml#57" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.xix.57xx.61</a>. Cicero in <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione2.shtml#57" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
(2.xix.57)
</a>
and our author supply the first references to the <span lang="la" class="Latin">exceptio</span>&nbsp;in extant literature. See Friedrich von&nbsp;Velsen, <i>Sav. Zeitschr.</i>&nbsp;21&nbsp;(1900), 1045.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note97" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref97" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">97</a>
<a href="https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lsante05/LegesXII/leg_ta05.html" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
<i>Twelve Tables</i>&nbsp;5.7a</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note98" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref98" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">98</a>
Marx (<i>Proleg.</i>, p107; see also R.&nbsp;Reitzenstein, <i>Gnomon</i>&nbsp;5 [1929], 6056) affirms, and Mommsen (p643, note&nbsp;6) denies, the genuineness of this law; it is omitted in
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione2.shtml#148" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i> 2.l.148</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note99" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref99" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">99</a>
<a href="https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lsante05/LegesXII/leg_ta05.html" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
<i>Twelve Tables</i>&nbsp;5.3</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note100" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref100" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">100</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lsante05/LegesXII/leg_ta05.html" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();"><i>Twelve Tables</i>&nbsp;5.45</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note101" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref101" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">101</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione2.shtml#149" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;2.l.149</a>, and on this (ritualistic) form of punishment Mommsen, pp9213; Alfred Pernice, <i>Sav. Zeitschr.</i>&nbsp;17&nbsp;(1896), 210&nbsp;ff.; Max Radin, <i>Journ. Rom. Studies</i>&nbsp;10&nbsp;(1920), 11930<!--</A>JOURNAL:JRS:10-->; Rudolf Düll, <i>Atti del Congr. Internaz. di&nbsp;<a id="p43x"></a>Diritto Rom.</i> (Roma), Pavia, 1935, 2.363408. According to
<a href="https://www.livius.org/sources/content/livy/livy-periochae-66-70/#68.1" target="Livius" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,toLivius,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
Livy, <i>Periochae</i>&nbsp;68</a>, Malleolus was the first (101&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>) to suffer this punishment.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note102" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref102" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">102</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">στάσις δικαιολογική</span>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#15" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">1.xi.15</a>,
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione2.shtml#69" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.xxiii.69&nbsp;ff.</a>
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note103" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref103" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">103</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">κατ’&nbsp;ἀντίληψιν</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note104" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref104" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">104</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">κατ’&nbsp;ἀντίθεσιν</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note105" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref105" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">105</a>
The mime was condemned; see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#19" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.xiii.19
</a>
below. This type of <span lang="la" class="Latin">controversia</span> is Greek in origin; <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;Hermogenes, <i>De&nbsp;Stat.</i>&nbsp;11, ed<span class="emend">.</span>&nbsp;Rabe, pp889 (but belonging to the subtype of Legal Issue based on Analogy; see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#23" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.xiii.23
</a>
above), and Sopater, in Walz&nbsp;8.3834. See also Sulpitius Victor&nbsp;39, in Halm, p337.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note106" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref106" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">106</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">συγγνώμη</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note107" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref107" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">107</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">μετάστασις</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note108" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref108" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">108</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀντέγκλημα</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note109" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref109" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">109</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀντίστασις</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note110" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref110" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">110</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#23" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">2.xvi.23
</a>
and
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#43" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.xxvii.43
</a>
below, and
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#15" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i> 1.xi.15</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note111" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref111" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">111</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">κάθαρσις</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note112" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref112" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">112</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">παραίτησις</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note113" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref113" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">113</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἐκ προνοίας</span>. Voluntary acts =&nbsp;<span lang="el" class="Greek">τὰ&nbsp;ἑκούσια</span>, involuntary =&nbsp;<span lang="el" class="Greek">τὰ&nbsp;ἀκούσια</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note114" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref114" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">114</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἄγνοια</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note115" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref115" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">115</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">τύχη</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀτυχία</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀτύχημα</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note116" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref116" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">116</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἄνάγκη</span>, <span lang="el" class="Greek">βία</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note117" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref117" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">117</a>
In&nbsp;105&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>, Q.&nbsp;Servilius
Caepio, through his failure to coöperate with his colleague Mallius,
brought upon the army a disastrous defeat at Arausio at the hands of the
Cimbri, Teutones, and their allies. Caepio's proconsular <span lang="la" class="Latin">imperium</span> was abrogated, and by the motion of the <span lang="la" class="Latin">tribunus plebis</span>, L.&nbsp;Cassius Longinus, he lost senatorial rank (104&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>). Cicero,
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/brut.shtml#135" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
<i>Brutus</i>&nbsp;35.135</a>, says of Caepio that the fortunes of war were imputed to him as a crime.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note118" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref118" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">118</a>
Manumitted, the slave was answerable for his crime to the courts, and not subject to domestic punishment. The <span lang="la" class="Latin">controversia</span> is doubtless Greek in origin. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/7C*.html#4.14" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">Quintilian, 7.4.14</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note119" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref119" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">119</a>
The <span lang="la" class="Latin">controversia</span> is Greek in origin; the like situation is presented in
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione2.shtml#96" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
<i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;2.xxxi.96</a>. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/7C*.html#4.14" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">Quintilian, 7.4.14</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note120" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref120" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">120</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione2.shtml#104" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i> 2.xxxiv.104</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note121" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref121" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">121</a>
The court was obliged to render a verdict strictly on the law, and could not lessen the punishment. See also Quintilian,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/5D*.html#13.5" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
5.13.5
</a>
and
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/7C*.html#4.17" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
7.4.17&nbsp;ff.</a>
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note122" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref122" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">122</a>
Especially that of a magistrate; <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;Mommsen, pp149&nbsp;f. and note&nbsp;5, and Wenger, <i>Institutes of the Roman Law of Civil Procedure</i>, p32.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note123" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref123" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">123</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#17" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">1.x.17
</a>
above, and
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#26" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.xvi.26
</a>
below.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note124" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref124" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">124</a>
P.&nbsp;Sulpicius Rufus was among those proscribed by Sulla in&nbsp;88&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>
Pursued by Sulla's horsemen, he took refuge in a villa at Laurentum,
where he was betrayed by a slave and murdered. His head was exhibited on
the rostra. The slave was set free by Sulla's orders and then hurled
down the Tarpeian Rock. <i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#7.60" target="Appian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,Appian,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">Appian, <i>Bell. Civil.</i>&nbsp;1.7.60</a>:
"[Sulpicius and others] had been voted enemies of Rome, and anyone who
came upon them had been authorized to kill them with impunity or to
bring them before the consuls [Cornelius Sulla and Quintus Pompeius]."
Velleius Paterculus,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/2B*.html#19" target="Velleius_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,EPlusL,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.19</a>, says that Sulpicius and his followers were declared exiles by formal decree (<span lang="la" class="Latin">lege lata</span>). It was forbidden to bury Sulpicius' body; see
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B*.html#31" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.xxii.31
</a>
below. If this <span lang="la" class="Latin">controversia</span> was not
merely a school exercise, and the murderer was actually called to
account, that may have been in the year&nbsp;87, when Sulpicius' party
again came into power. See the notes on
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B*.html#note11" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.xiv.20</a>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B*.html#note89" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
xxiv.33</a>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B*.html#note114" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
xxviii.38</a>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B*.html#note161" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
xxxiv.45</a>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4C*.html#note81" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
lii.65</a>, and also
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/2*.html#45" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
2.xxviii.45</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note125" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref125" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">125</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione2.shtml#72" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;2.xxiv.72</a>. According to the historians, after L.&nbsp;Cassius Longinus in the war against the
<a id="p49x"></a>Cimbri and their allies fell (in&nbsp;107&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>)
at the hands of the Tigurini in Gaul, C.&nbsp;Popilius Laenas, legate,
made a pact: the Roman survivors would, in return for hostages and half
of their possessions, leave in safety. The Roman band went under the
yoke of the Tigurini.<a class="ref" id="ref:passing_under_the_yoke" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#note:passing_under_the_yoke" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,MyNote,WIDTH,150)" onmouseout="nd();">a</a>
No mention is here made of the hostages nor of passing under the yoke,
nor does the amount of the baggage agree precisely with that in the
historical accounts. The charge of treason was made in&nbsp;106 by the
tribune C.&nbsp;Caelius Caldus; a&nbsp;fragment of the defence appears
in
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B*.html#34" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,0,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">
4.xxiv.34
</a>
below. Popilius went into exile, but perhaps after a later trial under Saturninus' law of treason of&nbsp;103&nbsp;<span class="small">B.C.</span>
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note126" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref126" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">126</a>
<span lang="la" class="Latin">Ratio</span> =&nbsp;<span lang="el" class="Greek">τὸ&nbsp;συνέχον</span>, <span lang="la" class="Latin">firmamentum</span> =&nbsp;<span lang="el" class="Greek">τὸ&nbsp;αἴτιον</span>. Cicero misconstrued <span lang="la" class="Latin">firmamentum</span> in
<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#19" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">
<i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i>&nbsp;1.xiv.19</a>; <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/partitione.shtml" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(EClickHere+'Cicero\'s<BR><I>De Partitione Oratoria</I>'+Lat2+LatSearch+'firmamentum</SPAN>',WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();"><i>Part. Orat.</i>&nbsp;29.103</a>,
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/3C*.html#11.19" target="Quintilian_E" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,1,WIDTH,165)" onmouseout="nd();">
Quintilian, 3.11.19</a>, Volkmann, pp100108, Thiele, <i>Hermagoras</i>, pp6778, Jaeneke, <i>De&nbsp;statuum doctrina ab&nbsp;Hermogene tradita</i>, p111.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note127" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref127" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">127</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#17" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">1.x.17
</a>
and
<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#25" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,5,WIDTH,140)" onmouseout="nd();">
1.xv.25
</a>
above.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note128" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref128" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">128</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;in Aristotle, <i>Rhet.</i>&nbsp;2.23 (1397<span class="small">AB</span>), the third of the 28&nbsp;<span class="translit_Greek">topoi</span> from which to draw enthymemes, the <span class="translit_Greek">topos</span>
from correlative terms: "And if 'well' or 'justly' is true of the
person to whom a thing is done, you may argue that it is true of the
doer. But here the argument may be fallacious; for, granting that the
man deserved what he got, it does not
<a id="p51x"></a>follow that he deserved it from you" (tr.&nbsp;Lane Cooper), and in&nbsp;2.24 (1401<span class="small">B</span>), the fallacy of omission illustrated by the argument in Theodectes' <i>Orestes</i>. For the argument as used in other Greek tragedies, <i>cf.</i>&nbsp;Tyndareüs in Euripides, <i>Orestes</i>&nbsp;5389:
"My daughter, dying, paid her debt to justice, but that she died at his
hand was not meet," and Castor, addressing Orestes in <i>Electra</i>&nbsp;1244: "Your mother now has but justice, but your deed is not just."
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note129" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref129" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">129</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">κρινόμενον</span>, Hermagorean doctrine.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note130" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref130" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">130</a>
<i>Cf.</i>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/inventione1.shtml#19" target="offsite" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,LatinRef2,WIDTH,195)" onmouseout="nd();">Cicero, <i>De&nbsp;Inv.</i> 1.xiv.19</a>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
<p class="justify">
<a class="note" id="note131" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref131" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">131</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">κατάφασις</span>.
</p><p class="ivy"></p>
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<a class="note" id="note132" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/1*.html#ref132" onmouseover="return Ebox(INARRAY,BackRef,WIDTH,175)" onmouseout="nd();">132</a>
<span lang="el" class="Greek">ἀπόφασις</span>.
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